Buckle.



No. 822,080. PATENTED MAY 29, 1906. L. SANDERS.

BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED DBG.23. 1905.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 29, 1906.

Application filed December 23,1905. Serial No. 293.094.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS SANDERS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough. of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York,

have invented a new and Improved Buckle,

of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a buckle especially adapted for the backstraps of trousers, vests, and other garments in which such straps are used, but which may be employed wherever a friction bite is desired, and to so improve the construction of such buckle over the construction secured to me by Letters Patent No. 807,132 and dated December 12, 1905, that the buckle will be rendered more simple and more economic in manufacture without departing from its usefulness.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved buckle viewed from the back. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the buckle shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section taken practically on the line 3 3 of Fig. 4. at right angles to the section shown in Fig. 3 and practically on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a section taken practically on the line 5 5 of Fig. 6. Fig. 6 is a bottom plan view of a buckle, showing a slight departure from the previous form in its construction. Fig. 7 is a section taken substantially on the line 7 7 of Fig. 8, and Fig. 8 is a bottom plan view of a buckle of substantially the same construction as that shown in Fig. 6.

The frame A is of skeleton construction and comprises a front bar 10 and a rear bar 11, both of which are preferably flat, and end bars 12, which latter extend up above the front and the rear bars, as is particularly shown in Fig. 1. The frame A is provided with tongue-supports 13, which extend in direction of each other from the rear edges of the endbars 12, and each of the said tonguesupports 13 is provided with an outwardlyextending member 14. A tongue B, preferably made of a piece of flat metal, is located Fig. 4 is a section taken within the said frame, the said tongue having a trunnion 15 at each end adjacent to its rear edge, and these trunnions are fulcrumed in the end bars 12 of the frame to the rear of the tongue-supports 13 of the frame, as is clearly shown in both Figs. 1 and 2.

The tongue B is provided adjacent to each end with a transverse slot 16, and these slots are so placed that when the tongue is forced down to a closed position or to a position of rest on the tongue-supports 13 the projections 14 from said supports will pass out through the slots 16 and will have such frictional engagement with the inner walls of the said slots as to hold the tongue firmly in its closed position. The forward end 16 of the tongue is provided with teeth or is roughened or beveled so as to have a biting engagement with the material passed between said edge and the inner edge of the front bar 10 of the frame, and the said tongue and the said biting edge 16' of the tongue are so formed that when the tongue is in its clamping position the biting edge 16 will be immediately opposite the inner edge'of the front bar 10 of the frame and practically in the same plane with the front and the rear faces of the said front bar.

In the construction shown in Figs. 5 and 6 the frame A comprises a front bar 10*, a rear bar 11*, and side bars 12", which are of the same construction as the corresponding bars in the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2; but the tonguesupport 13 is in one piece and extends from one end bar of the frame to the other. The tongue B is of the same construction as the tongue B, (shown in Fig. 2,) eXcept that the slots 16 are omitted, and the pivot pins 15 of the tongue are also journaled in the end bars 12 of the frame to the rear of the said tongue-support 13 and the said tongue B is provided with a biting edge 16 toothed or beveled. In both of these constructions it may here be remarked that the biting edge of the tongue is removed to a greater or lesser extent from the opposing edge of the front bar of the frame. i

The tongue B is held in its closed position also by frictional contact, and this frictional contact is obtained by producing offsets or bosses 17 in-the spring metal of the end bars 12*, which offsets are located adjacent to the forward edge of the tongue and at a point just above the front face of the said tongue when the tongue is in clamping position, a

is clearly illustrated in Fig. 5, and preferably these spring projections 17 are produced by making indentations in the outer faces of the said end bars, the projections 17 being upon the inner faces of the said bars.

In Figs. 7 and 8 I have illustrated a buckle of the same construction as that shown in Figs. 5 and 6, and the parts are similarly lettered, the only difference between the two buckles being that instead of having the tongue-support in one piece, as is shown in Figs. 5 and6, the said support is in two sections 19, located at the end bars 12*.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A buckle comprising a tongue a skeleton frame provided with means for supporting the tongue, the tongue being pivotally mounted in the frame behind said supporting means and extending the full width of said frame, the edge of the tongue being substantially flush with the inner edge of the front bar of the buckle when the tongue is resting upon the supporting means, and said frame being provided with means extending inwardly therefrom and engaging the body of the tongue whereby to retain it in its closed position.

2. A buckle consisting of a skeleton frame 0% and tongue-supports extending from the end portions of the said frame, each tongue-support having an outwardly-extending member at its free end, a tongue pivoted in the said frame above and to the rear of the tonguesupports, the biting edge of which tongue is substantially flush with the forward bar of the frame when the tongue is in closed position and resting upon the said tongue-sup ports, the said tongue being provided with slots in its body portion which receive the outwardly-extending members of the tonguesupports, the said outwardly-extending members when the tongue is closed being in close frictional engagement with the outer walls of the said slots.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS SANDERS.

Witnesses: v

J. FRED. ACKER, J NO. M. BITTER. 

